STOP CALLING IT PARANOIA! FFS, This stuff is being used to track people that go to protests.
404 needs to shove their paranoia and normalize using truth and real words and not hedging like CNN or something.
Here’s an actual link to the tech: Zenni ID Guard
Pretty wild getting hit with a message to accept all cookies.
Please dont link to paywalled articles, unless you paste the whole article contents in the post
Providing the text or an archive link separately may be polite, but your request goes too far. If somebody shares a paywalled link that is on topic for the community, you have several options. You can ignore it and miss out, and be no worse off. You can find an archive copy yourself, and even share it in a comment to receive fake internet points. You can enjoy the discussion in the comments and maybe find other relevant links there. But you’re suggesting that the community is better off with fewer posts and less participation (“please don’t [post] unless”).
The community rules include
Posting a link to a website containing tracking isn’t great, if contents of the website are behind a paywall maybe copy them into the post
That’s a much nicer way of stating a preference to have OPs do the legwork. Please don’t discourage community participation.
To be fair, the sidebar itself suggests copying the content over if they’re paywalled. It’s nuts that you’ve highlighted that, and then complained about a rephrasing of what it says.
It’s nuts to me that you can’t see the nuance in the difference between “please don’t [post]” and “maybe copy [the article text] into the post”.
The “maybe” in there is doing a lot of work converting that into a suggested guideline rather than being a hard rule, and a polite request to follow the guideline is appropriate. But the nuance of “don’t post unless” is distinctly discouraging participation, and not appropriate.
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Why are you being so rude?
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I don’t think I’m being particularly rude here, but the reason why I’m engaging is that OP didn’t do anything wrong and I’m glad they made the post.
I dislike paywalls and registrationwalls as much as most people, but the overall lemmyverse isn’t large enough to discourage posters who link to interesting on topic content. That is rude.
So, these actually work great when IR is used (for example you won’t be able to unlock your iPhone when wearing them), however my question is, does this help at all when just a normal photo is taken? You can wear these, have a ‘normal’ photo taken and it just looks like you’re wearing standard glasses. That could then be fed through CV, etc?
Article says no.
Ma’am, this is the Internet. That’s the last place I would think of checking. If it ain’t in the headline, it didn’t happen.
Most of us can’t read the article.
We can read fine. The site linked-to by OP is paywalled, and they didn’t do the minimum courtesy of copying and pasting the article contents into the Lemmy post.
Just google “bypass paywall”, there’s several sites that you can enter a URL and they’ll link you to common ways to bypass paywalls (usually by directing you to a site that archives news stories).
Archive.is is a good site to try first. It typically doesn’t get articles from major news sources for a few hours after publication, but most everything else is available pretty much as soon as it is published.
There’s so many of these paywall-lite sites now, it’s hard to read news without knowing how to bypass these paywalls.
Those sites don’t work. They’re locked behind cloudflare and ban access for hardened browsers.
Just fucking paste it. Or don’t post it.
